derogates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 547 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derogates is the highest-scoring word from derogates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 547 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in derogates — and it is derogates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derogate and restaged, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derogates produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest and storage. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including dogears, dotages and dragees.
Unscrambling derogates turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, agreed and agrees. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including agreed, grades and dogear.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, agree and dares. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including drags, edges and grade.
Rearranging the letters in derogates produces 168 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and arts. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including aged, dogs and drag.
Unscrambling derogates turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and ago. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dog, god and dag.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in derogates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derogates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
derogates is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for derogates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
derogates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derogates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is derogates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from derogates earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in derogates produce 547 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 168 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.